Computers

Do you know which population surfed Internet the most? How many % of the world’s population come online everyday? How many countries still do not have Internet connection?

Here are some interesting figure facts for you geeks who want to know more about the Internet usage. Full list after jump.

1. 35.6% of internet users are Asian.
2. With average of 389 million of internet surfers each month, Asia is the largest internet crowd among other world regions.
3. In Afirca, 3 out of 100 surf the Internet.
4. In Asia, 10 out of 100 surf the Internet.
5. In Europe, 38 out of 100 surf the Internet.
6. In Middle East, 10 out of 100 surf the Internet.
7. In North America, 70 out of 100 surf the Internet.
8. In Latin America, 16 out of 100 surf the Internet.
9. In Australia, 53 out of 100 surf the Internet.
10. Only 16.6% of world population surf the internet.
11. 1 billion users around the globe are surfing the Internet every month.
12. Amount of internet surfers in Asia (389,392,28 mil) is 11 times the population of Australia (34,468,443 mil).
13. 19% of internet users are from United States (210,080,067 mil).
14. Around 18 countries still doesn’t have Internet connection.
15. North Korea’s internet penetration statistics is not publicized.

Most Popular Computer Facts

1. Bill Gates' house was designed using a Macintosh computer.
2. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
3. While it took the radio 38 years, and the television a short 13 years, it took the World Wide Web only 4 years to reach 50 million users.
4. There are approximately 1,319,872,109 people on the Internet.
5. "Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.


All Computer Facts

1. On an average work day, a typist's fingers travel 12.6 miles.
2. The Dvorak keyboard is more efficient than QWERTY. 20 times faster, in fact.
3. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
4. On eBay, there are an average of $680 worth of transactions each second.
5. "Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
6. 80% of all pictures on the internet are of naked women
7. In the 1980s, an IBM computer wasn't considered 100 percent compatible unless it could run Microsoft Flight Simulator*.
8. The world's first computer, called the Z1, was invented by Konrad Zuse in 1936. His next invention, the Z2 was finished
9. The first computer mouse was invented by Doug Engelbart in around 1964 and was made of wood.
10. Domain names are being registered at a rate of more than one million names every month.
11. There are approximately 1.06 billion instant messaging accounts worldwide.
12. The first banner advertising was used in 1994.
13. E-mail has been around longer than the World Wide Web.
14. The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute, less than half the normal rate of 20.
15. One of every 8 married couples in the US last year met online.
16. The average 21 year old has spent 5,000 hours playing video games, has exchanged 250,000 e-mails, instant and text
17. By the year 2012 there will be approximately 17 billion devices connected to the Internet.
18. MySpace reports over 110 million registered users. Were it a country, it would be the tenth largest, just behind Mexico.
19. While it took the radio 38 years, and the television a short 13 years, it took the World Wide Web only 4 years to reach
20. There are approximately 1,319,872,109 people on the Internet.
21. For every 'normal' webpage, there are five porn pages.
22. Bill Gates' house was designed using a Macintosh computer.
23. The first domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com.
24. Another name for a Microsoft Windows tutorial is 'Crash Course'!

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160 billion emails are sent daily, 97% of which are spam.

Spam generates 33bn KWt-hours of energy every year, enough to power 2.4 million homes, producing 17 million tons of CO2.

9 out of every 1,000 computers are infected with spam.

Spammer get 1 response to every 12 million emails they send (yet it still makes them a small profit).

A twillionaire is a twitterer with a million or more followers.

There are some 1 billion computers in use.

There are some 2 billion TV sets in use.

There are more than 4 billion cell phones in use. About 3 million cell phones are sold every day.

The first known cell phone virus, Cabir.A, appeared in 2004.

Since 2008, video games have outsold movie DVDs.

Amazon sells more e-books than printed books.

Facebook has 500 million registered users… about 100 million less than QQ.

About 1.8 billion people connect to the Internet, 450 million of them speak English. See list of Internet languages.

Google indexed it’s 1 trillionth unique URL on July 25, 2008. That is thought to be about 20% of all the pages on the Internet but a high percentage of the World Wide Web (the public Internet).

One google search produces about 0.2g of CO2. But since you hardly get an answer from one search, a typical search session produces about the same amount of CO2 as does boiling a kettle.

Google handles about 1 billion search queries per day, releasing some 200 tons of CO2 per day.

The average US household uses 10.6 megawatt-hours (MWh) electricity per year.

Google uses an estimated 15 billion kWh of electricity per year, more than most countries. However, google generates a lot of their own power with their solar panels.

The first public cell phone call was made on April 3, 1973 by Martin Cooper.

The Motorola DynaTAC 8000X was the first cell phone sold in the US; launched on April 11, 1984, it was designed by Rudy Krolopp and weighed 2 pounds.

About 20% of the videos on YouTube are music related.

24 hours of video viewing is uploaded every minute on YouTube.

People view 15 billion videos online every month.

On average, US onliners view 100 videos per month each.

Flickr hosts some 5 billion photographs, Facebook hosts more than 15 billion.

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